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Okaihee

Okaihee is a village in Nilo where Abeke was born and raised.

The village itself is next to a ravine, and is surrounded by a wall with an entrance gate. The side of the wall facing the ravine is broken and can be climbed to enter the village stealthily. Inside the wall are mostly stone rondavel houses, which are houses with round, stone bases and cone-shaped thatched roofs.[1]

During Wild Born, Okaihee was suffering from drought. It was described as being in a plain of tall grasses with only a handful of trees, including thick-trunked baobab trees, and withered shrubs. The land around Okaihee is baked and brown with dry, brittle grass.[2]

In Okaihee, the men would normally hunt and women rarely ventured out alone.[3]

In the Books[]

Wild Born[]

Okaihee is in a terrible drought since its Rain Dancer, Hano’s granduncle, had died.

Rise and Fall[]

Conor, Rollan, and Tarik travel to Okaihee where they discover that animals possessed by Cabaro the Lion have broken the wall. It is also revealed that the village’s previous chieftain was killed by the Conquerors, and Pojalo is now chieftain. The Conquerors decided to leave Okaihee alone since all their crops failed. When Tarik offers to help rebuild the village, Pojalo rejects his offer and sends him, Conor, and Rollan on their way.

The Evertree[]

It starts to snow in Okaihee because the Evertree is dying.

Traditions[]

Bonding Ceremony[]

Children attend a bonding ritual on their eleventh nameday.

For bonding ceremonies, otherwise known as bonding rituals, all Okaihee’s villagers will line up in two lines and stand along a pathway.

The children of age will walk down the path, holding a Bonding Day gift to the village, to meet the village Greencloak. As the children approach, the Greencloak will recite traditional chants in the old tribal language and the villagers will repeat it.

Once the children meet the Greencloak, the chant will continue and the children will drink the Nectar.

After the Evertree is reborn, it is assumed these ceremonies have stopped or changed because the Bile and the Nectar no longer work.

Trivia[]

  • Okaihee is pronounced as "oh-kye-hee".[4]
  • To Abeke’s knowledge, no child from Okaihee had brought game as their nameday day gift before her.[5]
  • In Wild Born, it was mentioned that Okaihee wasn’t a well-respected village because there was no Rain Dancer.

References[]

  1. Wild Born, page 24
  2. Wild Born, page 23
  3. Wild Born, page 23
  4. Pronunciation Guide
  5. Wild Born, page 24
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